Improvement in apparatus for carbureting air



GEORGE REZNOR.

Improvement in Apparatus for Carbureting Air.

No. 125,085, Patented March26,1872.

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GEORGE REZNOR, OF MERGER, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,085, dated March26, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE REZNOR, of Mercer, in the county of Mercerand in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Apparatus for Oarbureting Air; and do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters ofreference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to supply carbureters, or other devicesused for the purpose of carbureting coal-gas or air, with hydrocarbon orother carbureting agent in quantities as it is consumed, and therebygiving a uniform result from the time the machine is charged until it isall consumed, and thus keeping up the gravity of the fluid exposed tothe passing vapor. The nature of my inventionconsists in theconstruction and arrangement of a tank containing at the bottom acarbureting-chamber and provided with suitable air and service andsupply pipes, and a pipe connecting the tank with thecarbureting-chamber, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, andwhereby the object sought is fully accomplished.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, whichrepresents a longitudinal vertical section of my machine.

A is an'air-tight tank having a separate carbureting-chamber, G, at thebottom. B is an air-tube passing from the carbureting-chamber (J upwardthrough the top of the tank A, and provided witha cap, I, at its upperend to close the same. The tube B is also, immediately below the top ofthe tank, provided with apertures a, thus forming a connection betweenthe chamber 0 and the top of the tank. D is a tube connecting the tank Aat its bottom with the chamber C, said tube being provided with astop-cock, b. E E are service and sup ,ply pipes leading from the top ofthe chamber 0. H is an opening through which the tank isvfilled.

The operation of my machine is as follows:

The cock I) in the pipe D is closed. The tank A is then filled throughthe opening H to any desired point below the perforations a a; then theopening H is closed air-tight and the cock I) opened, when the fluidfrom the tank A will pass through the pipe D into the chamber 0 and risein said chamber until it closes the lower end of the tube B and alsotills said tube to a level with the fluid in the tank, when the partialvacuum formed at d in the upper part of the tank by the escapeof fluidstops the flow from the tank to the chamber until the air or vaporexhausts the fluid in the chamber so as to allow the air to pass throughthe tube B,.relieving the partial vacuum formed at (I, thus keeping upthe supply of fluid from the tank A to. the chamber 0 in proportion tothe exhaust from the chamber. The cock bin the pipe D is left openexcept when filling the tank. The tube B is extended through the top ofthe tank only for the purpose of external communication with the chamber0.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with the tank A, having a diaphragm near its bottomforming the chamher 0, of the tubes E E, pipe B perforated near its topand extending into chamber (J, and the pipe 1) connecting the upper andlower chambers and having cock b, all as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this10th day of January, 1872.

GEORGE REZNOR. Witnesses:

G. L. EvERTs, E. W. JACKSON.

